Ep 287: Santiago Lastra

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Plosive

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.8 • 20K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Mexican-born Michelin-starred chef Santiago Lastra – whose restaurants include KOL and Fonda – orders his dream meal this week. Now, where did we put the sea buckthorn juice?

Santiago Lastra’s new London restaurant Fonda is now open – go to fondalondon.com. And for details about KOL go to kolrestaurant.com.

Follow Santiago on Instagram @santiagolas

Off Menu is a comedy podcast hosted by Ed Gamble and James Acaster.

Produced, recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.

Video production by Megan McCarthy for Plosive.

Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).

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Watch Ed and James's YouTube series 'Just Puddings'. Watch here.

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0:00.0	Huge news from off-menu towers, James.
0:03.0	Pick it out, man.
0:04.1	We've just added extra dates for off-menu live,
0:06.7	the tasting menus at the Royal Albert Hall.
0:08.8	We will be there on Sunday the 15th of March, 2026 at 2pm.
0:13.4	Sunday the 15th of March, at 7.30pm.
0:16.8	It's on Sunday the 15th of March, two shows, 26.
0:20.4	Tickets from Royal Albert Hall.comcom and seetickets.com.
0:25.3	Today's episode of the off-menu podcast is sponsored by Gusto.
0:29.7	Discover a world of new recipes every night with gusto.
0:33.5	Look, I think we all sometimes we run out of a bit of inspiration, don't we? We don't know what we're going to cook. We know we want to cook. We know we enjoy cooking. Sure. But what are we going to cook? Where are we going to get the ingredients from? Well, Gusto make it easy as all anything. And with new cuisines every week from around the globe, Guesto inspires me to cook and discover new recipes.
0:55.0	So much choice.
0:56.1	So many different cuisines to choose from.
0:58.2	You can travel across the world in one week if you use gusto.
1:01.5	That's right, James.
1:02.4	It really inspires you to cook with Gusto.
1:05.0	They send you the ingredients, the recipes.
1:08.1	So many different recipes to choose from over over 500 recipes per month, James.
1:13.9	It's their biggest menu ever.
1:16.1	Are you interested in finding out more, James?
1:18.7	I am, Ed.
1:19.5	Get 50% off your first box with code off menu.
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